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...hunting for quail in South Carolina, Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch sprained his left leg when the stirrup broke as he dismounted from his horse. He flew north to see his Manhattan doctor, then snorted at inquiring reporters: "No, 'tain't broken, just swollen...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco had a suggestion: France should let its one-time ambassador to Spain, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, now under a life sentence for treason, come to live in Spain and enjoy "the hospitality of our wonderful Mediterranean climate, where, until passions die down, he could spend the last years of his life, loved and respected." In Paris, a few World War I veterans, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, remembered their old hero, set up a chant of "Set Pétain free" before police could silence them...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, wife of the old Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
Died. Baron Edouard de Rothschild, 81, titular head of the fourth generation of the House of Rothschild; in Paris. One of the world's wealthiest bankers (in 1935 his personal fortune was estimated at $55 million), Baron Rothschild lost his property to the Pétain government in 1940 when he and his wife fled to the U.S. (they managed to get out with $1,000,000 in jewels...
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 92, hero of Verdun in World War I, and head of Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...